PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Testimony continues today at the Allegheny County Courthouse in the trial for the man accused in a standoff and shooting that claimed the lives of three Pittsburgh police officers.

KDKA’s Harold Hayes reports that a forensic pathologist testified that Officer Paul Sciullo, the first officer killed during the gunfight, and whose body lay in the doorway, was shot four times in the head. Two of the wounds were consistent with shotgun blasts. He was shot a total of eight times.

Earlier, Judge Jeffrey Manning overruled a defense motion to bar evidence of which websites the defendant, Richard Poplawski, viewed in the hours before the shooting.

The judge allowed the prosecution to show that the defendant viewed the Storm Front website, a white supremacist group, as well as a Fox News report on a mass murder-suicide in upstate New York between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. The shootings began just after 7 a.m.

The jury saw new pictures taken in 2008 of Poplawski holding firearms and wearing bullet resistant vest in addition to pictures of a campsite in Clarion County where Poplawski is said to have had target practice.

On Wednesday, the third day of the trial, more evidence and new photos were presented.

Photos of the deadly aftermath show the Fairfield Street home in Stanton Heights where the standoff happened as unkept and strewn with debris, among the mess were several weapons and ammunition. One box contained 900 unused rounds.

Harold Hayes joined KDKA-TV in August of 1979 as a general assignment reporter and has covered everything from military operations in the Middle East to landmark local court cases.
His overseas coverage includes Operation Desert Shield in Saudi...